Krabbe Says She Will Not Try to Qualify for Olympic Games

World sprint champion Katrin Krabbe, whose future is clouded by an investigation into a drug test, said Wednesday she won’t compete in Germany’s last Olympic qualifying meet.

“My nerves can’t take it any more,” the 22-year-old German said of the furor surrounding the case, according to Germany’s Sports Information Service.

Sprinters Krabbe, Grit Breuer and Silke Moeller were suspended for four years on Feb. 15 after drug tests showed that their urine samples, though drug-free, apparently came from the same person.

The trio denied taking performance-enhancing drugs and, upon appeal, the German Track Federation lifted the ban to allow them to compete in Germany.

But the International Amateur Athletics Federation is considering the case, and German newspapers have said the group is expected to impose an international ban that would prevent them from competing in the Olympics.

World track officials have won a seven-month battle to change the Olympic schedule, yet the victory came a few days too late for the man it was designed to help.

Olympic organizers agreed to a change that would allow U.S. sprinter Michael Johnson, the world’s fastest man at 200 and 400 meters, to seek two gold medals at the Games.

But Johnson said he is standing by his decision to compete only in the 200 meters at the U.S. Olympic trials that begin Friday in New Orleans.

“They are four or five days too late with their decision,” Johnson said from his home in Waco, Tex. “Here we are a week before the trials. I couldn’t put off my decision any longer.”